This is a reduced part of a beautiful chess image of which the original can be found at the site of Fantasy Art 3D Wallpapers: modern digital art, 3D artists, computer desktop backgrounds.
The mentioned site contains a lot of beautiful pictures, but this one is my favorite. It illustrates the beauty of chess.
The way to mastership from Edward Lasker is a free downloadable ebook. It has been digitized by Project Gutenberg and can be downloaded here.
The reason why many people hesitate to learn the game and to teach it to their children is that Chess has been misrepresented as a game which is very difficult to master. [...]
In some of the previous lessons we have learned about the pin and how we could make use of a pin in order to win a piece. All these lessons started with a position in which two enemy pieces were aligned with each other. In order to create an absolute pin the opponent’s king has [...]
As mentioned in the previous post we are going to need a large database of chess games.
Where can be found such a database? I’ll mention some possibilities in this post.
Downloading by means of ChessDB
Within the Tools menu of ChessDB a “Download Games from …” option is offered to download a database of 100,000 games in [...]
In order to improve your chess game it will be better to analyze your own games and learning how you can create your own chess lessons. This may be the most important chess lessons: learning how to create your own chess material.
For the creation of this chess material we will need some tools and one [...]